INDEX 
567 
Nacco Islands, 198 
Nangamessi, 375 
Nanjan lake, 78 
Nanusa Islands, 302 
Nassau Islands, 199 
Natuna Islands, 273 
Navigators’ Islands, 500 
Negara, 224, 273 
Negrito race, 8, 21, 47, 54, 70, 80, 
81, 82, 86, 95 
Negros Island, 80 
Nepenthes, 231 
Neu Lauenburg (see Duke of York 
Islands) 
Neu Mecklenburg (see New Ireland) 
Neu Pommern (see New Britain) 
New Britain, 434 
New Caledonia, 12, 455 
mountains of, 456 
history of, 456 
geology of, 457 
climate of, 458 
flora and fauna of, 458 
natives of, 459 
trade of, 462 
administration of, 462 
penal establishment in, 463 
New Caledonian Company, 451 
New Guinea, 376 
title of Dutch to, 317 
physical features of, 378 
mountains of, 379 
history of, 381, 419 
annexation of S.E. by England, 
384, 419 
geology of, 385 
climate of, 388 
flora and fauna of, 390 
the Papuans of, 397 
political divisions of, 410 
the Dutch territory, 410, 438, 
440 
the German territory, 412, 440 
the British territory, 418, 439, 
440 
islands of, 424 
“New Guinea Company,” 413, 417, 
434 
New Hanover, 432 
New Hebrides, 449 
New Ireland, 432 
Newspapers of the Philippines, 56 
Ngenges, Mount, 354 
Ngoko language, 127 
Nias Island, 197 
Niauli-tree, 458 
Nibong palm, 243 
Nickel, 457, 458 
Nila Island, 366 
Nipa palm, 243 
Niue, 507 
Niukalofa, 499 
Noordwijk, 148 
Normanby Island, 437 
Noumea, 465 
Nufur language, 430 
Papuans. 412, 430 
Nuhu Boa, 342 
Nui Island, 508 
Nukahiva, 523, 524 
Nukulailai Island, 509 
Nukuor Island, 547 
Nusa-Heli, Mount, 309, 329 
Nusa-Tello, 341 
Nutmeg, 300, 322, 334, 336, 339, 
366 
Obi Islands, 326 
Obree, Mount, 385, 423 
Ofu Island, 504 
Oil-palm, 255 
Olele, 211 
Olosenga Island, 504 
Ombay, 363, 364 
passage, 363, 369 
Ombilin coal-fields, 208 
Onin peninsula, 379, 411 
Oparo, 519, 533 
Ophir, Mount, 159 
Opium-farming in Sarawak, 264 
“Orang Sirani,” 315, 329 
Orang-utan, wanting in Java, 119 
found in Sumatra, 181 
in Borneo, 232 
Order of the Sacred Heart, 410 
Ornithoptera priamus, 313 
Otaheite, 511 
Otuiti, Mount, 532 
Ovalau, 470 
Ovulum ovum , 402, 445 
Owen Stanley, Mount, ascended by 
Sir W. Macgregor, 385, 422, 
423 
range, 380, 383, 422 
plants of, 391 
Owhyhee, 533 
